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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
, in such a manner that the same stands firmly in its place and allows a free circulation of the heat. The name andiron is supposed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon brand-iron. Others derive it from hand-iron. For the large kitchen fire, the andirons were very strong and massive, but usually quite plain. In the hall, that sion of receding arches, of varying spans and versed sines. A Concentric Arch is one of several courses whose curves have a common center. Common in Norman and Saxon architecture. A Discharging Arch is one which is formed in a wall to protect a space beneath from the superincumbent weight. An Arch of Equilibrium is one oric, Ionic and Corinthian (Greek); Tuscan and Composite (Roman). The more modern is Gothic, which has several varieties: Anglo-Roman, B. C. 55 to A. D. 250; Anglo-Saxon, A. D. 800 to 1066; Anglo-Norman, 1066 to 1135; Early English or Pointed, 1135 to 1272; Pure Gothic, 1272 to 1377; Florid, 1377 to 1509; Elizabethan, 1509 to 1625.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ment of external sizes. See also i, Fig. 1029. Cal′i-ver. An old form of hand-gun. An arquebus. Calk. A projection from a shoe or clog which digs into the ice or frozen ground to prevent slipping. The word is allied to the Anglo-Saxon word calc, a shoe; or the Latin calcar, a spur. In a horseshoe, the calk a consists of a downward projection from the heel, made by turning over the iron of the heel and sharpening it. The calk b attached to a boot consists of a plate with he plague in 1405. Fireplace and chimney in Conisborough Castle. Among the earliest English chimneys of which we have any knowledge is that of the large firehearth in the great guard-room of Conisborough Castle, erected in or near the Anglo-Saxon period. The mantel is supported by a wide arch, with two transom stones running under it; the back of the fireplace, where it joins the hearth, is in a line with the walls of the room, and the recess at the mantel is formed by the back of the fi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
er cities in Mesopotamia. — Layard. Enameled pottery has also been recovered at Thebes. Vestiges of the Roman occupation of Britain are occasionally disinterred in various parts of the country. The art of painting in enamel or with metalline colors, and fixing them by fire, was practiced by the Egyptians and Etruscans on pottery, and passed from them to the Greeks and Romans. Enameling was also practiced among the Chinese. Specimens of enameled work are yet extant of early British, Saxon, and Norman manufacture. An enameled jewel, made by order of Alfred the Great, A. D. 887, was discovered in Somersetshire, England, and is preserved at Oxford. An enameled gold cup was presented by King John to the corporation of Lynn, Norfolk, and is yet preserved. Luca della Robbia, born about 1410, applied tin enamel to pottery, and excelled in the art. Bernard Palissy, the Huguenot potter, born about 1500, devoted many years to the discovery and application of enamels of various
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
us.Spiral gear. Hooke's gearing.Sprocket-gear. Hunting-cog.Spur-wheel. Interdental.Star-wheel. Intermittent gear.Stepped-gear. Internal gear.Sunk-motions. Irregular wheel.Train. Lantern-wheel.Trundle. Mangle-rack.Variable gear. Mangle-wheel.V-gear. Match-gear.Waved gear. Mesh; mash.Wiper. Miter.Worm-gear. Multiple.Worm-wheel. Gearing—chain. An endless chain transmitting motion from one toothed wheel to another Gears. A name applied to harness, as the clothing (Anglo-Saxon, geara, clothing) of a horse. The word is usual in the West, and different kinds of harness are indicated by the names single-gear, double-gear, lead-gear, hip-strap gear, Yankec-gear, etc. Gear—wheel. Any cog-wheel, whether crown, spur, internal-cogged, bevel, or lantern, is a gearwheel. The essential feature is the possession of cogs, which act upon the cogs of another wheel in the train or series to impart or transmit motion. See gearing. Geat. （Founding.) The channel or<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
d for more effectual treatment in the preparatory roasting or calcining processes. Otherwise called cobbing. Lobe-plate. A strong piece of cast-iron laid upon the keelson, etc., to support the parts of a marine steam-engine. A sole-plate. A foundation-plate. Lo′cal. （Telegraphy.) The battery of a local circuit. The latter is one which includes only the apparatus in an office, and is closed by a relay. Loch′a-ber-axe. The battle-axe of the Highlanders. Lock. (Anglo-Saxon, loc, an inclosure or fastening.) 1. A device having a bolt moved by a key, and serving to secure a door, lid, or other object. The ancients, though possessing many valuable arts and great skill, do not seem to have been successful in locks. Those of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans were clumsy contrivances. Denon has an engraving of an Egyptian lock of wood, which is similar to the one shown at A, Fig. 2980. The locks used to the present day in Syria are much like those used over<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
The Roman emplectum found in England has sometimes courses of tiles built in, as shown at G. H represents wide-jointed masonry, and I a combination of wide and close joints. In a few of the earlier English buildings, considered by some to be Saxon, the quoins, the door and win- dow jambs, and occasionally some other parts, were formed of stones alternately laid flat and set up endwise; the latter were usually much longer than the others. This is termed long and short work (J). Masonry.ful art the direction and distance of the lines are so modified as to give the appearance of a figure or object in relief. It is executed by machinery. The machines of M. Collas and Mr. Bate, as well as those of Asa Spencer, Mr. Froude, and Mr. Saxon, are all improvements upon an apparatus described in a French work, the Manuel de Tourneur, about 1814. This machine will give a good general idea of the construction of these machines, and its operation is as follows: — The medal and the c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
ntral portion of a wheel from which the spokes radiate. See hub. 2. (Architecture.) The main body of a church. Na′vel. （Ordnance.) A perforated lug on the under side of a carronade which is engaged by a through bolt and thereby secured to the carriage. Na′vel-hood. （Shipwrighting.) A hood wrought above the exterior opening of a hawse-hole. Neb′ule-mold′ing. （Architecture.) An ornament of the zigzag form, but without angles; it is chiefly found in the remains of Saxon architecture, in the archivolts of doors and windows. Neck. 1. A narrowed portion of an object relatively near to the end; as of a bottle, an axle. 2. (Chemistry.) The beak or rostrum of a retort. 3. (Ordnance.) a. The part joining the knob of the cascabel to the base of the breech; called the neck of the cascabel. b. The small part of a gun where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle. 4. (Music.) The finger-board between the head and the body of a violin, gu
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
O. Oak′um. (Anglo-Saxon, acumba.) 1. The coarse portion separated from strick (strike: A.-S., strican) of flax or hemp in hackling. 2. Untwisted rope; used for calking the seams of a ship's plank, being forced thereinto by chisel and mallet. A first-rate ship of war requires 67,000 pounds of oakum to close the seams. Oar. 1. (Nautical.) An instrument for rowing. A long paddle which rests in tholes on the gunwale in rowing. A long oar, used occasionally to assist a vessel in a calm, is a sweep, and is operated by two or more men. Small oars are sculls; one rower wielding a pair, sitting midlength of the thwart. Scalling a boat is performed by an oar shipped in a half-round hole at the stern, the oar being moved with a twisting action from side to side. A rigged oar is one in which the oar is pivoted to the gunwale and moved by a rod, or otherwise by a rower sitting abaft it, so that he may face forward. The blade of the oar, also known as the wash,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
also prepared artificially. Cobalt bluePhosphate of alumina and oxide of co- balt mixed with arsenite of cobalt. Smalt-Saxon blueDouble silicate of cobalt and potassa, mixed with earthy and metallic oxides. Antwerp bluePrussian blue with various02 Chaldaic22Chinese214 Syriac22Japanese73 Samaritan22Dutch26 Phoenician22Spanish27 Armenian38Irish18 Arabic28Anglo-Saxon25 Persian32Danish28 Turkish33Gothic25 Georgian38French28 Coptic32German26 Greek24Welch4 Latin25Russian35 Sanscrit3ws, as we of the West call them. o is from Strutt's plates of ancient dresses, and indicates the appearance of the Anglo-Saxon plow and plowman of the eighth century. From the foregoing and those shown in the next figure, and a comparison of oth0 grains each. One hundred and forty-four pounds avoirdupois equals 175 pounds troy or apothecary's weight. The old Saxon pound sterling was a pound of silver troy weight. 2. (Hydraulic Engineering.) The level space of a canal between loc
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
fixed his seal to the death-warrant of Naboth, 899 B. C. Impressions on lead were attached to Saxon documents. Wax was first used on documents about 1213. Assyrian seals. Magna Charta it, though a few are to be found in Palestine. Shadoof (from Thebes). Modern Shaduf. Anglo-Saxon draw-well. The Egyptian system was to divide the allotments of land into shallow beds, with irgne: was in Chaldee, Arabic, and Syriac, Seric; in Greek, Sericon; in Latin, sericum; in Anglo-Saxon, seolc, and so on. The first ancient Western author who mentions it distinctly is Aristotle; ngs are but little used. The true word, sled, is used in America, and is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word slidam, to slide. See sled. 2. The heavy hammer of a smith, wielded by both hands. A tinder. The striking of fire by flint and steel is mentioned by Virgil and Pliny. The Anglo-Saxon fyr-stan. Currier's steels. Steel-bronze. The name given to a very hard and tenacious a
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